Weblinks

Cavity expansion

• Ryan Haanappel's resume (Power oscillation graphs)

Coding + general reference (various)

• Hex color codes
• Complete Character Entity References for HTML 4.0
• HTML tags cheat sheet
• Math in HTML using CSS (this is great!)
• W3Schools tags reference
• Gnuplot reference
• Greg's Linux cheat sheet
• Azure's computer shortcuts + code

Definitions of terms

• Glossary of laser basics - Mechanical Engineering @ Columbia University
• Melles-Griot Glossary of Terms

Electronics

• Logic gates (Wikipedia)
• Introduction to Optical Amplifiers

General Optics

• Optics -Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Holography

• Introduction to Holography (Stanford U. Winter Lecture pages)
• Holography ("The Laser Adventure")
• Vibrational holography at Stetson University

Interferometry

• Basics of Interferometry and Interferometers (from Samuel Goldwasser)

Longitudinal modes

• Basics of laser modes (Columbia University)
• Longitudinal and Transverse Modes (provides examples of transverse modes with diagrams)
• Theoretical diagram of Dual-Mode stabilized HeNe via Feedback System (from Sam's Laser FAQ)

Open-cavity lasers

• Middlebury College - Aligning the OC HeNe laser with an alignment beam

Quantum Theory of Light

• Blackbody Radiation
• de Broglie Waves

Resonance

• Helmholtz resonators

Spherical Lasers

• Lasing in Microspheres

Stabilization

• Sam's Laser FAQ - Items of Interest
• 543 nm Iodine Stabilization of HeNe

Transverse Modes

• An Investigation of the Cavity Modes of the HeNe laser
• Real Beam Propagation - Laser Modes
• He-Ne Laser Modes
• Longitudinal and Transverse Modes (Dan Li)
• Transverse modes and multi-modes (Alex Ellis)
• Fractal Laser Modes (check PDF file)

Wave Propagation

• Hüygens' principle

Zeeman Splitting

• Calculus and detailed diagrams of the Zeeman effect
• Basic definition of Zeeman splitting
• Good diagram showing 2J+1 split levels

Funny stuff, etc.

• Homestar Runner
• The Onion
• 1337-$|?34|{ (leet-speak)
• Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Contest

Weblogs

• Xanga
• LiveJournal
• MySpace